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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 413 |
| AUTHOR: | John Adams (1735–1826) |
| QUOTATION: | Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | JOHN ADAMS, letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814.—The Works of John Adams, ed. Charles Francis Adams, vol. 6, p. 484 (1851). |
| SUBJECTS: | Democracy |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
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